On free sites, the placing of the ads can sometimes wreck the design. It's in the top of the main content area. What if you could choose from few different (reasonable) positions? One of them could be the side bar for example. And if you'll choose more of them, you'd get more features (storage space for example)!

Another issue that has been under discussion, is that you can't control the contents of the ads in any way. It's not fun if you have a free site that's against furs and a fur ad is the first thing you see when you enter the site.

Edit: Adsense chooses the ads by the contents of the site so you'd most likely see a fur ad on such a site!

so true. the incredible power, flexibility, and generosity of wikidot's free offerings is what made me choose to start my site on wikidot in the first place. nothing else compared. i knew my project could be successful here. eventually my needs grew and i upgraded to pro when it was available, because the value is amazing for what you get.

The number of new users per day has been hovering between 1,000 & 1,100 for the last few days, which is considerably better than the sign up rate a few months back when we reached the 500,000 user mark. I think this is strong evidence that Wikidot is heading in the right direction.

This is a good move: Wikidot's approach is so much better than the line that Ning etc are taking. As Michal has correctly pointed out, the majority of us who now have paying accounts started out with free accounts, and it is so important to atrract and develop free users as it gives them a risk-free platform to experiment to see if Wikidot does what theywant it to do, whether that is for gaming, community, a personal site or for business. If I had been forced to pay up-front without being able to experiment I would probably not have investigated Wikidot at all, and it's now 50% of my business!

It would appear not, since the plans page has been updated with the new value for free, and it is now the same as pro lite. There isn't really room to increase that, since pro and pro+ only allow 50MB.

It is one less reason to buy pro-lite, but admittedly, now free has adverts, there is still a pretty good impetus to do so.

So I'm sure my "a few more sites on pro-lite please" will fall on deaf ears, and that would really require upgrading all account types too.

on a similar note, might you be able to lift the limit of how many files you can upload at a time… at least for pro? when you're trying to upload a big photo album or something, 50 files is actually way too low, and it's a pain to break it up into separate batches.

a similar note, might you be able to lift the limit of how many files you can upload at a time… at least for pro? when you're trying to upload a big photo album or something, 50 files is actually way too low, and it's a pain to break it up into separate batches.

When the API includes the ability to upload files, I'll be able to write an application that can do that in about an hour.

You would select the files (or even entire folders/directories) to upload, and the application would upload them all one-by-one for you, giving you a progress report along the way.

In Java, for example, the OpenFileDialog class that exists in the libraries already means that the only code I need to write is to actually connect with the API and give it some file names.

To be honest I closed all my wikidot sites when you modified free sites to have this awful footer and header. I visited here today only because… some spammer editer my placeholder site to leave links to his page. Right now you are writting in big words but only changing one small thing.